What is your new title? Manager of marketing, communications and media relations, Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

Describe your responsibilities. My role is multilayered. In addition to leading my team in an integrated marketing approach for the exchange and its products, I lead the business development effort, working directly with brokers and other marketing partners. I handle all communication and media relations issues, develop and maintain our Web site and organize and lead educational and promotional venues.

What is your educational background? Aside from numerous life experiences, which are, in my book, the most important, I studied journalism and communications at Point Park University, Pittsburgh.

What do you consider integral to starting your day right? Great coffee, good hair and a power suit.

Name one thing that attracted you to this organization/job. The future. It is an amazing time in the industry and MGEX is positioning itself at the forefront of innovation and growth. The opportunity to not only be a part of the dynamics on the horizon, but to play a role in leveraging those dynamics to better serve our members and the industry as a whole was simply too good to pass up.

Is there a publication you read regularly? The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and various commodities and grain publications. And no month is complete without the Rake, the Onion, City Pages and Mpls.-St. Paul Magazine.

My advice to a new manager would be: Surround yourself with good people and let them do what they do best. When things are going well, don’t take the credit; give the credit to your team. And when the tide turns, shoulder the blame and shield your team so they can continue to do what they do best.

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